A spectacular skate, and a wonderful misuse of forms.

Hello! And after last week's announcements, this week is a little quieter.

First up: this week's Lateral sees the return of our regular collaborators, Ella Hubber, Caroline Roper and Tom Lum from Let's Learn Everything! They're facing questions about roundabout routes, mysterious messages and devillish doorbells.

And now, here's good stuff I've found on YouTube this week:

A few years ago, when James from Atomic Frontier did a guest video for my channel, I said he's going to have my job in a few years. Good news: he basically has now! He climbed AT&T Long Lines towers to explain why the internet isn't quite as fast as it used to be, and it's a great video.
Rockets are not meant to launch sideways. (Scott Manley explains why it happened.)
A mesmerising and surely-dangerous video of speed skating along traffic-filled New York City roads, made much calmer by the jazz playing underneath it. It's astonishing what can be done with relatively-cheap, off-the-shelf camera gear now: the latest generation of action cameras produce footage that can be properly colour-graded, while keeping the camera so stable it looks like a video game. (Thanks to Matt for sending this over.)

Around the rest of the web:

How would you make an online version of an escape room puzzle? If you're like me, you'd first think about building a web site, writing code, managing user logins and security... or you could just use Google Forms. I'm linking that not as a specific tutorial for newsletter readers, but just as a mind-expanding thing: it never occurred to me that a forms tool could be used this way, by non-technical folks, to make games for education or entertainment or both. I love it when tools are repurposed this way, particularly business tools. (If you search for 'google forms escape room' you'll find plenty to try!)
I'm glad the Covid-19 Signage Archive exists: ephemera like this often gives an insight for historians. I'm not sure I want to spend much time there, though.
Incredible 2024 headline: a nightly Waymo robotaxi parking lot honkfest is waking San Francisco neighbors. Which has promptly been livestreamed with lo-fi beats.